Sentences with phrase «re-negging on a campaign promise»

Though after Trump won the election, he seemed to soften on this campaign promise, the Times reported, pledging to keep an open mind.

For Trump, the tariffs represent a step toward making good on a campaign promise to get tough on the country that produces the most panels — China.

Trump, who invested little in formulating specific policy proposals during the presidential campaign, left his team scrambling after he won the election to prepare to implement on his campaign promises.

But the Republican president has shown flexibility on some campaign promises, and U.S. allies have been vocal on the importance of the climate accord.

Even though Kasich fared well on questions about his ability to follow through on campaign promises and only 0.67 percent of survey respondents thought he was the worst choice for president, he came in last as top choice for president among the then Republican primary candidates — a tepid showing for an honest and proven executive.

So if Trump is elected — and the Republicans also hold onto control of the Senate — he stands a decent chance of making good on this campaign promise.

He proposed the tariffs in part to follow through on campaign promises to crack down on what he calls unfair trade practices.

Over the past few years, though, that gravy train has begun to dry up, a trend that accelerated as President Donald Trump began to make good on campaign promises to restrict immigration.

President Donald Trump wasted no time Monday moving ahead on his campaign promise to renegotiate a nearly quarter - century - old free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico — a move that could end up hurting workers in the states that heavily supported him.

This was widely interpreted as a rebuke to France's newly minted Socialist president, who is making good on campaign promises to tax the hell out of high - income citizens as a means of bridging the country's yawning deficits.

Politically, Trump has probably concluded that he needs to deliver on some campaign promises he's made first, but I am hopeful that in the next year or so, a startup visa or something similar will be put in place.

The tariffs are Trump's first strike at China's economy after a year of procrastinating on campaign promises to get tough on US trade with China.

Macron is also on the path to delivering on his campaign promise to cut corporate taxes.

As Parliament resumes after Canadaâ $ ™ s historic 41st election, all eyes are on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and how he delivers on his campaign promises of growth and stability.

The Bush administration imposed tariffs ranging from 8 % to 30 % on a variety of steel products, in part to make good on a campaign promise designed to appeal to voters in the Rust Belt states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

If he follows through on his campaign promises to impose tariffs, how would China react?

Confident that President Trump would deliver on his campaign promises, anchored investors enthusiastically pushed U.S. equities sharply higher late last year and into this year, expecting a flurry of economically stimulative measures that would ultimately drive up corporate profits.

There is a new government that is following through on its campaign promises.

Meanwhile, he is doing no meaningful work on his campaign promise to bring back the Glass - Steagall Act.

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An attempt by the House of Representatives to pass an overwhelmingly popular ban on late - term abortion was temporarily scrapped when some House Republicans came to the horrible realization that they might actually have to follow through on their campaign promises.

Touching on the campaign promises of his main contender Nana Akufo - Addo, Mr. Mahama urged Ghanaians to be cautious of a man who promises «One district, one factory» for votes, when he has never constructed any factory in his lifetime.

He said the realities of delivering on campaign promises are far different from the assumptions when not in power.

In voting to repeal Obama's signature health care law, House Republicans finally delivered on a key Trump administration goal and on a campaign promise that they have made for the better part of a decade — but at a potentially steep political price.

Hasidic leaders accused Bloomberg of re-negging on a campaign promise not to interfere with their right to perform this procedure, although the administration insisted no such agreement was ever formally struck.

If he makes true on his campaign promises, we would see a large - scale withdrawal from institutions that the United States has helped to create in the past, and on which its power and legitimacy have rested.

But the Republican president has shown flexibility on some campaign promises, and U.S. allies have been vocal on the importance of the climate accord.

He also tried to make good on his campaign promise to «Clean Up Albany,» announcing plans to end pay - to - play, force politicians to disclose outside income, publicly finance campaigns and promote independent redistricting.

Upon assuming office, Tsipras and his Syriza - Independent Greeks coalition government looked to act on campaign promises and initiated an uncoordinated, uninformed, and misguided attempt at not only renegotiating the Second Fiscal Adjustment Programme, but also «ending austerity throughout Europe.»

In the weeks since Moore's victory, Bannon said, Team Trump has worked harder to deliver on his campaign promises.

The governor on Monday night in Holbrook hit the president for failing to deliver on campaign promises.

While de Blasio is popular on his Park Slope home turf, his failure to follow through on his campaign promise to preserve Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in Cobble Hill has caused deep - seated dissatisfaction in LICH's catchment area — which happens to overlap Assembly District 52.

Adeyeye asked Nigerians to beg the President to save them from unnecessary diversion and face the job he was elected to do based on his campaign promises.

Speaking on Tuesday night on a radio platform, Politics, on Trend FM in Asaba, the former lawmaker who is now a member of the All Progressives Congress, noted that Okowa had failed to deliver on his campaign promises owing to «lack of vision and planning.»

What about the VA scandal and what will be done to help the vets after 5 years of Obama doing nothing on the campaign promise he made in 08?

The New York Times withheld its endorsement of Cuomo last week, saying he had not made good on a campaign promise to clean up Albany.

Asked about Trump, Browning said he hasn't followed through on campaign promises for an infrastructure bill or to unite the country.

A number of New York City legislators are hopeful Cuomo will make good on a campaign promise and help pass The DREAM Act to provide tuition assistance to undocumented immigrants who meet existing guidelines.

This is just as the party assured Nigerians that it would not renege on its campaign promise in that regard.

He pointed out that the hardest thing about governance is being able to deliver on campaign promises to the people.

«Not since the first President Bush told us to read his lips have we seen a more dramatic turnaround on a campaign promise than what we've seen from the Senate Republicans,» the Queens Democrat said.

«Her Excellency Aisha Buhari has appealed to the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC not to renege on their campaign promise of paying N5, 000 to 25 million unemployed Nigerians and giving school children one free meal a day,» read a statement issued on her behalf by Adebisi Olumide, her media aide.

The bill, expected to be introduced as early as the week of December 8, will ban the industry, making good on a campaign promise.

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) has urged Gov. Willie Obiano to justify his massive victory at the poll by delivering on his campaign promises.

Steamed politicians slammed Mayor de Blasio Friday as he moved to make good on a campaign promise to require even the city's smallest businesses to foot the bill for employees»...

Following through on a campaign promise, Pataki led a push to cut both the individual and the corporate tax rates in New York.

WHITE PLAINS — Westchester County Executive George Latimer delivers on a campaign promise during his first full day in office, issuing an executive order to prevent gun shows on property owned by the county.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement in Abuja on Thursday, said, «It is ludicrous that after almost three years of failure to deliver on its campaign promises, the Buhari Presidency is now moving around, cap in hand, looking for those to use once again to beguile Nigerians ahead of the 2019 elections.»

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.